Yup that's Lemuel Cook. I knew nothing about him so I checked it out. Last surviving vetran from the revolutionary war. Died at the age of 106 in 1866. George Washington signed his honorable discharge in 1784. Now that there is an old timer!

I find his final will interesting in that he gave his sons $100 to $400 apiece and each of his two daughters just $10 apiece. He even left $40 to his grandson. He did provide for his widow, so long as she remained his widow...and everything else was to be divided equally between all his offspring.

This male centric attitude has persisted down through the years even to my in-laws. they will gift their grandsons, and sons, but not so much the granddaughters. (They have husbands to care for them - is one rationale I have heard.)

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I grew up in West Texas, and could not wait to get away. I got away, and went to the University of Texas, and then on to Stanford. I saw the world, and decided what I really wanted was to be in West Texas. So here I am, right back where I started. I had it all, and found it was not that great.

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